artist, interaction designer, phd researcher

MAP-it is a hands-on tool used to plan, analyse and reconstruct past and future projects and spaces, which has been used in many participatory urban design projects.

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MAP-it is a hands-on tool used to plan, analyse and reconstruct past and future projects and spaces. It is a method to visualise a process in space and time, in a low-tech, open and flexible manner. It can be used in various situations, such as a brainstorm, debriefing, interview. MAP-it is an open tool, with all elements (scenario, stickers, manual) freely available, so you can experiment and organise a session yourself. However if you would like us to collaborate or assist with your participatory mapping project, you can contact me or Social Spaces.

I visited two archives of the Belgian Army to research the cartography of defence lines.

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In the process of developing #Plant, a public art project installed in a military heritage area, I visited two archives of the Belgian Army to research the cartography of defence lines. On the attached map, bunkers are indicated with dots, the thicker lines are an anti-tank canal, and the yellow triangles are the fields of fire. It occurred to me that visually, this giant war machine looks almost organic, which inspired me for the further development of the #Plant project.

#Plant is a cartography of a 1940 military defence line, transformed in an interactive light installation powered by solar cells.

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#Plant is an public art intervention in an military heritage site around Antwerp, Belgium. It is a cartography of a 1940 military defence line, transformed in an interactive light installation powered by solar cells. The intervention is installed inside and on top of a bunker.

Pedestrian Levitation visualises the real flow of people, adding a poetic layer that denies physical limitations such as gravity, in an attempt to inspire people to dream and look beyond their current situations.

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Pedestrian Levitation is an artwork based on the movement of pedestrians on a public space. Some pedestrians walk only on the sidewalk and use the pedestrian crossing for crossing the street, others make free interpretations on the pedestrian infrastructure that urban designers came up with. Pedestrian Levitation visualises the real flow of people, adding a poetic layer that denies physical limitations such as gravity, in an attempt to inspire people to dream and look beyond their current situations.

The bird-eye video Pedestrian Levitation Research of was recorded on the roof of a building and analysed frame by frame with animation software. A pattern of movement of the pedestrians was extracted by reworking this recording frame by frame with video animation software: it is as if pedestrians draw lines though the space. The pattern that was obtained by the Pedestrian Levitation Research video was the basis of the installation in public space.

The pattern that was obtained by the Pedestrian Levitation Research video was the basis of an installation in urban space, adding poetic layer that denies physical limitations such as gravity.

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Pedestrian Levitation is an artwork based on the movement of pedestrians on a public space. Some pedestrians walk only on the sidewalk and use the pedestrian crossing for crossing the street, others make free interpretations on the pedestrian infrastructure that urban designers came up with. Pedestrian Levitation visualises the real flow of people, adding a poetic layer that denies physical limitations such as gravity, in an attempt to inspire people to dream and look beyond their current situations.

The bird-eye video Pedestrian Levitation Research of was recorded on the roof of a building and analysed frame by frame with animation software. A pattern of movement of the pedestrians was extracted by reworking this recording frame by frame with video animation software: it is as if pedestrians draw lines though the space. The pattern that was obtained by the Pedestrian Levitation Research video was the basis of the installation in public space.